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for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and MoreMon, 12 Mar 2018 23:17:30 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: Tabbercat8http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/barbarylion09/comment-page-1/#comment-52248
Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:01:08 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=12205#comment-52248I’m sure the lions would adapt, we have a female lion in a Wildlife Sanctuary 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto, Ontario. She enjoys the snow and rolling snowballs apparently. Haven’t seen her do it but plan on visiting this summer. She came to our area when she was under a year and has been here for about 5 or six if not more. Animals are adaptable, she has a warm shelter full of straw if it gets too cold.
]]>By: kittenzhttp://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/barbarylion09/comment-page-1/#comment-52217
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:13:14 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=12205#comment-52217eireman,

I hope that’s the case. Northern Africa is a big place. Maybe there are still some lions living there.

]]>By: eiremanhttp://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/barbarylion09/comment-page-1/#comment-52205
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:24:05 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=12205#comment-52205” they were once the most common subspecies of lion in zoos (due to their close proximity to Europe, I imagine)”

Once I saw a picture of them, it really struck me that these are very much like the many 19th century (and earlier) depictions of lions. Hope they find homes.

I’ll be in Morocco in April, I’ll have to keep my eye out for any still hanging about. Perhaps they are like the jaguars in Arizona and still hanging around.

Lions, like wolves, can indeed live in a lot of places. The central Alaskan “refugium” (ice-free area) during the Pleistocene had lions closely corresponding to the existing species (although bigger).

I was at the National Zoo in Washington on Presidents Day. The lion (I actually think it might be an Atlas lion; at least I know the Zoo once had them) was outside, alternating bouts of roaring with lounging about in the sun. It was not a warm day.

The big cats in general don’t seem to have problems with cold. The Sumatran tiger was out that day, too. The cheetahs seem particularly active after it snows.

I use to live in Ypsi, & went to the Detroit Zoo a lot. Another zoo in Michigan that I liked very much is the John Ball Park Zoo in Grand Rapids. I went there many times when I was a child, living in western Michigan.

I have not been back to Detroit for several years. One time I drove all the way from Pike County, KY to Detroit, just to go to the zoo… stayed for feeding time in the lion house, then turned around and drove home 🙂 . That was when they still had indoor viewing for the big cat facility, with big old-fashioned barred cages on either side of a main aisle. You could not hear yourself think in there during feeding time! I suppose it was rather unsafe & that’s why they have taken that area off-exhibit. But it was really something to be enclosed in that big room, with roars echoing off the walls and big cats leaping around their cages.

True Barbary lions should not have much problem adjusting to the climate of Detroit. I have a friend who is from Morocco who tells me that it can get very cold in the Atlas Mountains. Lions are very adaptable and cold-climate zoos don’t have much difficulty housing lions.

]]>By: JohnnyMargerahttp://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/barbarylion09/comment-page-1/#comment-52176
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:26:35 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=12205#comment-52176Hmmmm, since I live right near the Detroit Zoo, I’ll get pictures of the Lions once they come in.

Barbary lions are almost certainly the primary subspecies of lion that was used in Roman arenas. Some spectacles “used” (read: killed) hundreds in a single event. No wonder they went extinct in the wild!

]]>By: Dj Plasmic Nebulahttp://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/barbarylion09/comment-page-1/#comment-52154
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:01:02 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=12205#comment-52154i already knew they were not extinct lol.
]]>By: jaymanhttp://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/barbarylion09/comment-page-1/#comment-52153
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:25:31 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=12205#comment-52153Sschaper, the creatures you mention are domesticated, not tame – there’s an important difference. Probably animals like big cats and apes can’t be domesticated due to their nature. And in any case, that was in the past, in a very different world, and it’s a “done deal”, so to speak.
While the federal government may have no such specific designated authority, it certainly does intervene in many issues involving public safety.
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